Victim’s family sues: From public lewdness, to a fatal DWI wreck

In less than a week (five days) after a fatal wreck claimed the life of 20-year-old Gianncarlo Coriabustos, his mother is suing two McAllen bars because, so claims her San Antonio-based attorney, they overserved alcohol to the man now charged with the death of her son, as well as the manslaughter of one other man caught in the crosshairs.

The fatal crash at the corner of Nolana and Col. Rowe occurred May 17 at approximately 2:30 a.m. The suit was filed May 22nd with the Hidalgo County District.

According to the criminal charges filed against 40-year-old Dionicio Aguirre, he was the one driving north on Col. Rowe (2nd) at a high rate of speed with the headlights to his Silverado turned off. Coriabustos sat beside him in the passenger’s seat.

Flying through the red light at 2nd and Nolana, police charge that Aguirre rammed his pickup truck into a Nissan Altima, driven by 53-yearold Juan Carlos Perez.

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Aguirre lived. Coriabustos and Perez were pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the mom’s lawsuit, the two bars where Aguirre and Coriabustos had spent a good part of the evening, NY 17th Floor and Santa Diabla, overserved both men, and continued serving them despite obvious signs of inebriation.

The mother, Martha Angelica Abad, is suing Aguirre and the two businesses operating NY 17th Floor and Santa Diabla.

“Defendant NY 17th Floor and Defendant Santa Diabla Cantina, as providers under the (alcohol-related) Act, sold or provided alcoholic beverages to a person who was obviously intoxicated to the extent that he presented a clear danger to himself and others.”

The mother is seeking damages in excess of $1 million, as provided by law.

The Priors

Dionicio Aguirre has a long history with law enforcement, which dates back to 2007, when he was only 23, and got busted holding less than two ounces of weed.

From there it was mostly downhill, based on court records.

In 2010, he was charged with resisting arrest and a DWI.

A year later he was back in the county courthouse, charged with evading arrest on a felony charge.

Two years later, Aguirre caught his second DWI.

Last July, he apparently veered off in a new direction, after he was formally charged with public lewdness in a downtown McAllen bar (Santa Diabla), which is the same bar where he spent part of May 16/17th drinking heavily before heading off to a tragic fate.

Allegedly.